The name Dorothy Reed Mendenhall is very familiar to physicians dealing with lymphoma. Because Dr. Reed is one of two scientists who simultaneously identified cells typical for the diagnosis of Hodgkin Lymphoma (Reed-Steinberg cells).
Douglas Hofstadter is a prominent scientist. Someone to listen to what he has to say about artificial intelligence technology. Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and ...
Would you like to get to know the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen, who revealed the threats to the ozone layer and developed the concept of "nuclear winter" and the Anthropocene era?
American pharmacologist and biochemist Gertrude B. Elion is famous for scientifically discovering drugs to treat leukemia and herpes, and drugs to prevent kidney transplant rejection.
John Maynard Smith, Professor Emeritus in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex, is an internationally renowned figure in biology who is highly respected for the originality of his ideas and his way of thinking. Smith is considered one of the most influential evolutionary biologists.
Alan Turing, the creator of computer science and artificial intelligence... He was remembered as a mathematical genius ahead of his time and a heroic scientist who ended the war.
Thanks to Fanney Hesse if a petri dish was used to grow and isolate different bacterial cultures! She suggested to her husband to use agar instead of gelatin in Petri dishes and fundamentally changed the science of microbiology.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), known as the founding father of microbiology, was a Dutch cloth merchant. He succeeded in discovering the invisible world of microorganisms with homemade microscopes.
A scientist named Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, who lived between 1845 and 1916, discovered the basic principles of immunology and demonstrated the existence of probiotics. Mechnikov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908 for his research on phagocytosis.
Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961) rose to fame as a professor of plant pathology at Utrecht State University. Biologist and fungus expert Johanna thus became the first female professor in the Netherlands in 1917.
